Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Not Even Enough for a Timbit at Tim Horton's

So I pick up my son from school yesterday afternoon and on the way home, drop by the local Tim Horton's (it's like the Dunkin' Donuts in the U.S.). I didn't really feel like buying anything for me, and didn't want to stuff him with greasy donuts and such, so I decided to get him a TimBit, which is essentially made of the same stuff as donuts, but it is round, the size, shape, and look of a ping pong ball. The beginnings of this, from what I recall reading about it, is that these Timbits represented the stuff that was supposed to be in the center of the donut (hence, the hole).

Anyhow, Timbits are 10 cents each. I felt like an idiot going through the drive-thru to buy one single Timbit, but at least it's a little less embarrassing since you can at least use your car's sun visor to shield your face, as the employees wonder about how cheap you are. Anyway, I pull up, order a Timbit as I shout into the microphone box (I always do this since I wonder if they hear me at all), and they say "is that all, sir?" and I reluctantly said, "yep". I pull up and see that they packed the one Timbit in a little bag as the lady looks at me with a "thanks for wasting my time" look. I fish into my pockets to dig up the 10 cents+tax (think it was 11 cents or something), but as I took out the coins, I found a nickel and three pennies in my pocket. I continue to fish in my jacket and slide my hand under the driver's seat to fish for coins and check the coin box and door handle jamb thing, check my seat to make sure I wasn't sitting on anything (though I suppose to a casual observer I probably look like I was wiping my bum). When I realized I did not have the required change, I shrug my shoulders at the lady, say "really sorry about this" as I look in my rearview mirror and see about six cars lined up behind me, and floor the gas, not looking back at what must be the look of bewilderment on the lady's face. I didn't even have enough to pay for a Timbit. How embarrassing. Thankfully my son was looking out the other window at something in the trees and missed the lowlight of my Tim Horton's experience.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should have used your Debit Card or I think Tim Horton's even takes MasterCard now ;)

Jeremy said...

The Timmy's where I had my experience doesn't accept debit card on the drive thru window. It does take MasterCard, and I actually thought about it, but I'd be hard pressed to show my face around there again, if I tried to charge 11 cents to my MasterCard.